Guruvaar Prarthna

Guruvaar Prarthna

 

Our Beloved Sadguru Sainath, please accept our humble prayers on this Holy day of Guruvaar. Baba why do you give us wants and desires, if we succeed our delightness stays for a moment, otherwise we are gloomy, despair and sorrow. As soon as one want is gratified, another new one crops up and no end to our wants and consequently our worries, restlessness, anxieties and fear continues. Baba we pray to stop this ignorance and we surrender to Your Lotus Feet and submit all our wants, needs,  worries and desires. You know what is best for us, give us the right thing at right time, until such time we pray and meditate on You. On this holy day we start our prayers after reading the following ovi verses from Your Satcharita.

 

Even in such a pathetic situation, Bhau chanted Sai's name. "Enough of this suffering. Even death is preferable", he cried surrendering to Sai.

 

He sent a message to Baba: "I am weary of bearing this pain. How many abscesses do I have on my body! I do not have the strength to bear this.

 

Throughout my life I have acted correctly. Why should I have to undergo this painful condition? I have never deviated from the path of righteousness. Why should I be punished and for what sin?

 

Baba! I can longer bear this pain on account of the guineaworms, which is similar to death. Instead let me die now. I shall undergo the suffering in my next life.

 

There is no alternative but to bear the pain. I shall have to take many more births. But that which is destined cannot be avoided. Dull-witted though I am, I realise it.

 

I will happily take ten more births, in which I shall undergo the fruits of my 'karma'. But grant me the boon of ending this present life.

 

Enough of this life. Release me from this birth. I do not wish to undergo this pain. That is all that I ask for now ".

 

Listening to this prayer, the Siddha-rana felt compassion; and for Dr. Pillai's satisfaction showered the nectar of mercy. Savour it.

 

Then seeing this utterly painful condition of Dr. Pillai, notice what the devotee's wish-fulfilling tree did to remove it.

 

This message from Dr. Pillai was brought by Dixit. Listening to this news, Baba said: "Go and tell him to be fearless ".

 

 And the further message he sent: "Why should he be crippled for ten lives? He has to bear it out only for ten days; and we shall both share it.

 

When I am capable of granting liberation, material desires, or spirituality, are you being brave in asking for something meaningless like death?

 

I bow down to Sree Ganesh

I bow down to Sree Saraswati

I bow down to the Guru

I bow down to the Family Deity

I bow down to Sree Sita-Ramachandra

I bow down to Sree Sadguru Sainath.

 

-(from Shri Sai Samartha Satchrita, Chapter 34, Ovi 53 - 64)

KEEP THIS IN MIND

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KEEP THIS IN MIND

 

 

In October 1917, Baba spoke to a Bombay Lady.

 

Baba : Mother, what do you want? Ask for it.

 

Lady: Let me be free from the whirl of births and deaths.

 

Baba (laughing): Is this all you want? What! Have you come to die?

 

Lady (shocked): Baba, I do not at all understand you

 

Baba: Think who you are.

 

Lady: I do not understand.

 

Baba (pointing to her husband): He will tell you.

 

Then the lady went with her husband to her lodgings and asked him what Baba meant.

 

Husband: Baba's words are mysterious. I cannot be sure I have made out his meaning. Probably he means something like this. The Jiva goes on reincarnating any number of times till it gets Sakshatkar i.e., sees or realises God. Baba is God. But people seeing him do not get full faith and do not see him i.e., feel him to be God; and hence they do not get Mukti. One must learn from the sastras, that essentially Jiva and Siva are one. You think yourself to be a Jiva is it not?

 

Lady: Yes.

 

Husband: Baba and the Sastras want you to regard youself as Siva or God.

 

Lady: No. No. I am a petty sinner-a Jiva and not the great God Siva.

 

Husband: No doubt that is your feeling. But Baba means that by constantly regarding yourself as God, your deeply ingrained belief that you are only a finite Jiva will be removed. This process continued, may be through numerous births and strengthened and helped by contact with saints will give you the firm belief that you are Brahman. That must be Baba's meaning.

(The couple again returned to Dwaraka Mai)

 

Baba: Mother, I have listened (from here) to all that your husband told you. Keep that in mind.

 

(From Baba's Charters and Saying – 121)

 

 

Guruvaar Prarthna

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Guruvaar Prarthna

 

Our Beloved Sadguru Sainath, please accept our humble prayers on this Holy day of Guruvaar. Life has become very artificial, there is physical,  mental and moral degeneration. There is wholesale devastation, divorce courts are increasing, life has become a matter of uncertainty, a mass of confusion, chaos and bewilderment, very stormy and boisterous. We are living in a clueless environment, not knowing what is going to happen. Baba You are our one and only Saviour, please save us against all the evils and make us useful, make us harmless, make us pure and make us a channel of Your Love.  On this day, we start our prayers by absorbing Your advice mentioned in Your Satcharita.

 

Therefore, oh devotees listen attentively to this story of Sai's profound nature which burns all the sins.

 

This narrative is sacred and purifying like the holy water of the Ganges. Blessed are the ears of the listeners for they become the means to gain good now and hereafter.

 

Let us compare it with nectar. But nectar cannot be sweeter than this. Nectar will save the life but this story will give freedom from the cycle of birth and death.

 

People say they are powerful and they can do whatever they wish. One who thinks like this should listen to this story carefully.

 

If the human being is genuinely independent, then when he strives day and night to achieve happiness why does he gain only unhappiness? This is the story of existence!

 

Even if a person is on guard to avoid unhappiness at every step, miseries follow quickly in search of him and keep track behind him.

 

If one tries to shake them off they hold one by the neck; if one tries to brush them off they cling more. Vain is man's strife against it. It only debilitates him.

 

If a human being was really free, he would be completely happy and he would not have known even a trace of unhappiness.

 

Assuming he was a free being, he would never commit any sins and only accumulate his store of merits, thus enhancing his happiness.

 

But a human being is not independent. His previous births' deeds are attached to him, and the ways of karma are strange. He is forever a puppet in the hands of karma.

 

One tries to think of good deeds but one is dragged towards sins. Wanting to be meritorious, one ends up by being an evil doer.

 

Destiny plays strange games. Without any rhyme or reason, we can either gain or lose. Sufferings born of karma come to you as a disease

 

Only one remedy. "Surrender at Sai's feet. This is the only saving grace. He is both Mother and Father.

 

He is the compassionate mother of all, who comes running at your call, takes pity on you and picks you up in her arms, understanding the need of the children.

 

Even leprosy is cured by mere darshan. What is to be said about tuberculosis! Have not the least doubt. Go and surrender at his feet.

 

He grants whatever anyone asks. This is his creed. Therefore, I say, make haste. Take Sai's darshan.

 

The greatest fear is the fear of death. What else can there be? Go and hold fast to Sai's feet. He alone will make you free of fear ".

 

 

I bow down to Sree Ganesh

I bow down to Sree Saraswati

I bow down to the Guru

I bow down to the Family Deity

I bow down to Sree Sita-Ramachandra

I bow down to Sree Sadguru Sainath.

 

-(from Shri Sai Samartha Satchrita, Chapter 13, Ovi 20–33, 57-61)

 

 

 

Who is Shirdi Sai Baba? – His own statements - 2

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Who is Shirdi Sai Baba? – His own statements - 2

 

All the insects, ants, the visible, movable and immovable world, is My Body or Form

 

I was the black dog.

I was the sickly sudra. I am in everything, and beyond.

I was the fakir who begged of you at Bombay.

I was the spirit you saw at midnight under the tree.

[I am Akkalkote Maharaj.] I gave you Rs. 2, Pitale.

 

Baba as a cat is beaten.

 

Baba to Hansraj, an Asthma patient: Do not take curds or taste sour things. But Hansraj was daily preparing curds overnight to drink it at the noon meal. Daily a cat drank it off and one day he beat the cat.

 

Baba: (to others, in the presence of Hansraj). "There is an Urphatia. a cussed, crossgrained man. I told him not to take curds. But he daily prepared it. Daily I went as a cat and drank it off, to save his life. Today I went again. Do you know what he did? He beat me over the shoulder. See here. (Hansraj looked and found a fresh weal on Baba's shoulder, though it was a cat he beat with a stick on the shoulder)

 

Baba as a dog and sickly Sudra:

 

Kasinath Govind Upasani Maharaj (K.G.U) who lived at Shirdi in 1911-14, prepared his food which a black dog was watching. Offering nothing to the dog, K.G.U. went to the masjid and offered it to Baba. Baba: Why did you bring it here? I was there.

 

K.G.U. : Baba, there was none there, except a black dog.

 

Baba: I was that black dog.

 

Baba refused to accept food that day.

 

Next day K.G.U. prepared his meal at his quarters and found no dog there. But a sickly Sudra was standing leaning on a wall and looking at the food. The orthodox K.G.U. drove him away from that place and brought the food to Baba.

 

Baba: Yesterday you did not offer me food. Today also you drove me away. Why bring the food here?

 

K.G.U.: Where were you there, Baba?

 

Baba: I was leaning on the wall.

 

K.G.U.: What! Could you be in such a person?

 

Baba: Yes I am in all things and beyond.

 

Purusha Sukta i.e. He pervades the earth and transcends it.

 

 

(From Baba's Charters and Saying – 73)

 

 

​Guruvaar Prarthna

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Guruvaar Prarthna

 

Our Beloved Sadguru Sainath, please accept our humble prayers on this Holy day of Guruvaar. Today is a very special day- starting day of the year. On this new day and the days to come, we may have to face difficulties. All that we are praying You is give us enough strength to face the difficulties, so that we can grow strong by overcoming all the difficulties -  one by one , patiently. If we fail ten times, we will not despair. If we fail hundred times, we will not dishearten. If we fail thousand times, we will rise up and march boldly. We believe failures and difficulties are stepping stones to success. One who has faith in the God must pass through the fire of sufferings. Suffering is not misfortune. It helps one to grow. Suffering and pain open the door to wisdom. Blessed are those  who suffer because suffering is the subsistence of spiritual life. On this special day of Guruvaar, we pledge to treat both happiness and sufferings equally and start our prayers by reading Your holy text in Satcharita.

 

O Guruvara, the One who is Compassionate towards the devotees, make haste and reach us. There is no respite in the worldly affairs. Free us from this cycle of births and deaths.

 

Our nature depends on our tendencies. Our senses are forever directed outwardly. Restrain us from the attraction of the objects of the senses. Introvert us.

 

In the ocean of worldly existence, we are tossed around like waves in a whirlpool. Extend your timely help and relieve us.

 

The senses run amok; evil practice overpowers us. Please dam up this unrestrained flow. Turn back the host of senses.

 

If the senses are not introverted, there is no prospect of Self-realisation. Without that, how can there be Supreme Bliss? Life will be futile.

 

Neither wife, nor son, nor numerous friends will be of any use in the end. You alone are the lasting friend for the final journey. You are the giver of joys and salvation.

 

Unravel the net of actions and sins and free us from its misery. Uplift the poor and the meek with the power of your grace, Maharaja.

 

Destroy from their roots evil tendencies and argumentative habits. Let our tongues get a passion for chanting the name, O pure, Sairaya.

 

Grant to me the ability to love you so intensely that I may forget all my resolves, doubts, even my body and home. Take away my ego also.

 

Make me ever remember your name and forget all other things. Remove the restlessness of the mind and make it steady and calm.

 

If you just clasp us, the darkness of night of our ignorance will vanish and we shall live happily in your light. What more can we desire?

 

 

I bow down to Sree Ganesh

I bow down to Sree Saraswati

I bow down to the Guru

I bow down to the Family Deity

I bow down to Sree Sita-Ramachandra

I bow down to Sree Sadguru Sainath.

 

-(from Shri Sai Samartha Satchrita, Chapter 25, Ovi 110 - 120)